Design considerations for technology-assisted fall-resisting skills training trials in older adults: A pilot and feasibility study Training fall-resisting skills can prevent falls in older adults. These fall-resisting skills include proactive gait adaptability, gait robustness, and reactive gait recovery, which allow people to ef...

Our pilot & feasibility study for our RCT is now out @plosone.org The first chunk of Liset's PhD work!

Design considerations for technology-assisted fall-resisting skills training trials in older adults: A pilot and feasibility study

dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

#fallsprevention #BiomechSky #aging

Biomechanics, muscle modeling, and the elevated bite force and tooth stress of piranhas

Piranha bite force and tooth stress are fantastically high for their size! Check out our new paper on computational modeling of the cranial muscles and bite mechanics of the amazing piranhas. #biomechsky 🐟🧪🌿

link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

#biomechsky question. Is there a way to plot opensim models/kinematics/ whatever native from python? That is, without opening an opensim window, can I plot a vsiualisation of my results of the sim? If not, why not? And would you be interested in it?

I don't believe Walter Herzog is on BlueSky but this feels very him ... + @jonasrubenson.bsky.social @cjclemente.bsky.social!
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🚀 New paper:
“Validity and reliability of monocular 3D #markerless #gait #analysis in simulated pathological gait: A comparative study with #OpenCap” @jbiomech.bsky.social :
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.jb...

👥 @bhorsak.bsky.social, M. Simonlehner, V. Quehenberger, B. Dumphart & A. Kranzl

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NEW podcast episode🎧

Deputy Editor, Sophie Woolven, talks to @ScottUhlrich about personalised gait retraining for knee #osteoarthritis

Apple: bit.ly/3VBBXcZ
Spotify: bit.ly/47W9TbI

Full Article: bit.ly/4nk2rfd
#Medsky #Rheumsky #Biomechsky

Please repost! We have a second biomechanics faculty position!

This is an open rank clinical-track position in sports biomechanics at the University of Michigan. This is a largely teaching-focused position and we have outstanding resources to support teaching and student learning. #BiomechSky

Tenure-track Faculty Position in Biomechanics (Open Rank), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA - Biomch-L The School of Kinesiology (http://kines.umich.edu) at the University of Michigan invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, Associate...

Please repost!

We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Is it me, or the train moving?
We use vision to maintain balance. Just close your eyes while standing on one leg and you typically feel less stable. But if we use vision, how come we do not fall when looking at a moving visual reference, e.g. a train?
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#sensorimotor #balance #BiomechSky

NEW RESEARCH—Personalised gait retraining for medial compartment knee #osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial bit.ly/4luS5aO @utah.edu #ASB2025 #Medsky #Rheumsky #BiomechSky

Computer screen capture of several people in Spatial Chat bubbles with a background that says National Biomechanics Day and ASB 2020.

With the ‪@amsocbiomech.bsky.social #ASB2025 meeting nearly upon us, this memory popped up of socializing online (Spatial Chat) at the virtual meeting back in 2020 with @dpferris.bsky.social‬, @lenating.bsky.social‬, Young-Hui Chang, and Liz Hsiao-Wecksler
Seems like a very long time ago #BiomechSky

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Zhang et al proposes that corneal cap thickness may affect postoperative corneal deformation, linking it to increased corneal refractive power and posterior corneal apical displacement.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Williams et al provides the kinematic and kinetic measures needed to better understand slip events during ladder climbing.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Havens et al provides critical insights into the biomechanics of infant lifting, an underexplored yet essential aspect of caregiving.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Vignali et al showcase using a clinical MRI scanner to analyze fiber microstructure in ex-vivo arterial samples. They developed a custom workflow to specifically analyze Diffusion Tensor Imaging data for this purpose.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Kaiser et al constructed a model of the zebrafish aortic valve using a first principles approach. These methods allowed for estimates of material properties of zebrafish valvular tissue that are largely unknown.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Sokolis et al explores human esophageal opening angles and residual strains, highlighting age and gender differences in morphology and deformations in the mucosa-submucosa and muscle layers.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Zhu et al developed a three-dimensional (3D) mechanical model of the blood-brain barrier , incorporating tight junctions as membrane structures within the vessel wall.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Li et al investigated the effects of a powered prosthetic foot that includes a monoarticular powered prosthetic foot and a biarticular gastrocnemius muscle actuator on nine non-impaired subjects while walking on a treadmill.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Waugh et al suggest potential sex-specific differences in AT behavior during dynamic activities, providing further insights into tendon biomechanics.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Golyski et al demonstrate conclusions drawn about stability from sagittal whole-body angular momentum range do not carry over from unperturbed to perturbed walking.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Duppen et al found that cueing for increased weight shift amplitude improves stability but does not enhance first step length during gait initiation for people with Parkinson disease.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Kimoto et al investigated the biomechanical parameters of rapid gait termination under a limited stopping distance and projection-mapping technique-guided walking speed.

👀 buff.ly/pdw9enQ
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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Liu et al found biomechanical differences between two-foot running jumps with and without a basketball by leveraging the impulse-momentum relationship.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Ashtiani et al found that both AnyBody Modelling System™ and OpenSim estimate that occupational back-support exoskeleton use significantly reduced spine loading during symmetric and asymmetric lifting tasks.

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#BiomechSky

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Yang et al show that the strain is greater when the bone matrix is piezoelectric than non-piezoelectric

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Dhiman et al suggest that freezing negatively impacts interlamellar matrix properties in degenerated human annulus fibrosus, which may be exacerbated by existing tissue defects.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Lerch et al provide initial evidence that baseball pitching variability is relatively similar between in-game markerless and in-laboratory marker-based settings.

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😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Lordall et al show that at least 10 consecutive strides across multiple trials are recommended for improved reliability when evaluating gait biomechanics using an IMU-based motion capture system.

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#BiomechSky

😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Cava et al show that an EMG-assisted control mode had better joint moment tracking accuracy than EMG-driven control mode.

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